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Fire Doused After Tanker Truck And Rail Car Collide In Port Coquitlam, B.C.

Darpan News Desk The Canadian Press, 23 Jan, 2018 11:55 AM

PORT COQUITLAM, B.C. — A spectacular fire, fuelled by ethanol, has been allowed to burn out in Port Coquitlam, B.C.

Residents were evacuated from the neighbourhood and the nearby Lougheed Highway was closed for several hours Monday night when a tanker truck containing ethanol and a rail car collided.

The collision happened in a Canadian Pacific Rail yard at about 7 p.m.

Fire Chief Nick Delmonico says a nearby mall was evacuated and as many as 300 people living across from the rail yard were asked to leave until firefighters secured the area and determined what substance was burning.

He says his crews left early Tuesday after allowing the ethanol to burn off from the tanker.

No one was injured, and Cpl. Michael McLaughlin of the Coquitlam RCMP says police are investigating the incident.

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